wow ... I post one tongue-in-cheek response to Trudy and spark a bunch of thoughtful, insightful, personally revealing posts. I'm not sure if I should muzzle my humor or what.
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Toddson - Nov 02, 2007 12:39:36 pm PDT #2212 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
brenda m - Nov 02, 2007 12:39:37 pm PDT #2213 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I have the bob, but I want to find out how to do, I think they are called "marcelled" waves. Mostly I have seen pix of black flappers with the marcelling, but is it a style peculiar to African-American hair, or can I reproduce the look with product and pins?
Same thing as finger waves? I know Hec's posted instructions for those before.
Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2007 12:43:08 pm PDT #2214 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
See, I think part of the issue here is that people are trying to define Poly based on outward actions...
I thought the discussion was more along the lines of trying to define poly relationships, not poly people.
Aims - Nov 02, 2007 12:43:42 pm PDT #2215 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
people are trying to define Poly based on outward actions
I'm more basing my definition of Poly on intentions, not neccessarily actions. Meaning, I love my friend Chris. If he and I were to find ourselves not married, we would probably be together. But I don't intend to have sex with him. It doesn't change my level of feelings for him, nor his for me, nor ours for our spouses, but I wouldn't say that either of us were Poly.
Does that make sense?
Aims - Nov 02, 2007 12:44:22 pm PDT #2216 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm not sure if I should muzzle my humor or what.
Hell no.
Strix - Nov 02, 2007 12:45:08 pm PDT #2217 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think they are close -- the marcelling and the fingerwaves.
Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2007 12:45:27 pm PDT #2218 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm not sure if I should muzzle my humor or what.
Muzzling would be a whole 'nother thing...
NoiseDesign - Nov 02, 2007 12:49:19 pm PDT #2219 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
I'm more basing my definition of Poly on intentions, not neccessarily actions. Meaning, I love my friend Chris. If he and I were to find ourselves not married, we would probably be together. But I don't intend to have sex with him. It doesn't change my level of feelings for him, nor his for me, nor ours for our spouses, but I wouldn't say that either of us were Poly.
Does that make sense?
Yes it does, but take this in the case of being bisexual again. If a bisexual man ends up in a relationship with a woman, he doesn't cease being bisexual. If he's monogamous then he won't be having sex with other men, or have the intent to have sex with other men, but he is still bisexual.
Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2007 12:50:45 pm PDT #2220 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, I think we were defining the nature of poly relationships.
If someone says they're Poly or Bi or Gay or whatever you just say "ok" because they're really the only person who could possibly make that call. I don't think anyone here disagrees with that.
Aims - Nov 02, 2007 12:51:52 pm PDT #2221 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Noise, I agree with you 100%. But the definition of a polyamorus relationship that has been given seems to make a lot of people who don't orient themselves a poly, poly.
I don't deny that poly is an orientation or that someone who orients themself as poly isn't if they aren't in any relationship(s).